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Author: Hiroaki Suzuki
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2013-01-22
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0821397508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration and provides policy recommendations and implementation strategies for effective integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries.
Author: Steven L. Jones
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780784413210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection contains 41 peer-reviewed papers on advances in transportation systems presented at the Third International Conference on Urban Public Transportation Systems, held in Paris, France, November 17-20, 2013.
Author: Sigurd Grava
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2002-09-09
Total Pages: 874
ISBN-13: 9780071384179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban Transportation Systems is a complete guide to the types of transportation available to communities together with the technical tools needed to evaluate each for given circumstances.
Author: Vukan R. Vuchic
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2007-02-16
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 047175823X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the only current and in print book covering the full field of transit systems and technology. Beginning with a history of transit and its role in urban development, the book proceeds to define relevant terms and concepts, and then present detailed coverage of all urban transit modes and the most efficient system designs for each. Including coverage of such integral subjects as travel time, vehicle propulsion, system integration, fully supported with equations and analytical methods, this book is the primary resource for students of transit as well as those professionals who design and operate these key pieces of urban infrastructure.
Author: Yong Bai
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 698
ISBN-13: 9780784412299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arnaud Banos
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-02-04
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1118601017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban transport systems need to be analyzed from various perspectives: the offer on one hand, the demand on the other hand, but also their negative externalities (risks of transport systems). These three dimensions are rarely apprehended in an integrated perspective. This book provides a large collection of chapters dealing with these specific dimensions, each written by recognized specialists in their domain, and articulates them in an integrated way.
Author: Nicholas Low
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-12
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1136187901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must be changed from auto-based mobility to systems of sustainable transport in which public transport, and non-motorised transport work together to reduce climate change pressures, enhance urban quality and preserve life and health. The book challenges the commonly held view that a combination of urbanity and higher residential density expressed in compact cities (expected to have greater public transport use) will resolve urban transport/environment problems, instead showing that transport systems can be changed to meet the environmental imperatives without the massive spatial change implied. But the problem of change of urban transport is profoundly institutional and cultural. Changes in urban mobility and transport require local institutional policy action. To support such action, the book explores new methods of governance of transport in dispersed and concentrated cities, new techniques for assessing transport need, ways of improving childhood mobility, guidelines for political mobilization, and norms of knowledge sharing. Drawing together leading scholars from different disciplines in Australia, Japan and China, this book provides a unique fusion of Asian and Australasian perspectives and engages with the coming needs of transport planning practitioners in both high density and dispersed cities.
Author: Jean-Paul Rodrigue
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1134257783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMobility is fundamental to economic and social activities, including commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. This book focuses on understanding how mobility is linked with geography. It links spatial constraints and attributes with the origin, destination, extent, nature and purpose of movements.
Author: Trynos Gumbo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-04-02
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 3030987175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the physical and electronic integration of innovative urban public transport systems in seven metropolitan cities in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). The book also highlights how collaborative engagement can improve new transport projects in cities of the Global South. It demonstrates how integration concerns remain in transport infrastructure projects in cities of the developing countries. Consequently, in order to strengthen the emerging and promising economies of these cities, there is a need for efficient, integrated, reliable and affordable public transport systems. The book explains that plans to deliver innovative transport systems in the Global South need to be well coordinated and managed to yield physically and electronically integrated systems.
Author: Un-Habitat
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-30
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1317932870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city roads and highways all over the world. The prescribed solution to transport problems in most cities has thus been to build more infrastructures for cars, with a limited number of cities improving public transport systems in a sustainable manner. However, a number of challenges faced by urban transport systems – such as greenhouse gas emissions, noise and air pollution and road traffic accidents – do not necessarily get solved by the construction of new infrastructure. Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility argues that the development of sustainable urban transport systems requires a conceptual leap. The purpose of ‘transportation’ and ‘mobility’ is to gain access to destinations, activities, services and goods. Thus, access is the ultimate objective of transportation. As a result, urban planning and design should focus on how to bring people and places together, by creating cities that focus on accessibility, rather than simply increasing the length of urban transport infrastructure or increasing the movement of people or goods. Urban form and the functionality of the city are therefore a major focus of this report, which highlights the importance of integrated land-use and transport planning. This new report of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the world’s leading authority on urban issues, provides some thought-provoking insights and policy recommendations on how to plan and design sustainable urban mobility systems. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date global assessment of human settlements conditions and trends. Preceding issues of the report have addressed such topics as Cities in a Globalizing World, The Challenge of Slums, Financing Urban Shelter, Enhancing Urban Safety and Security, Planning Sustainable Cities and Cities and Climate Change.
